flicking through

It might have stayed that way, had I not been flicking through the TV channels late one night, when something caught my ear . . .

要不是那天晚上我随手调换电视频道时偶尔听见了那几句话，我的生活仍会这样继续下去。

Stop flicking through the mail if she's trying to talk with you or turning off the TV long enough to answer a question.

如果她尝试要和你交谈，停止敲打键盘去写你的邮件。或者关上电视，直到你回答完了她的问题。

You spent an hour or two in a coffee shop, flicking through a few newspapers.

你在咖啡店里泡了一两个小时，翻翻报纸；

Flicking through the channels on an otherwise boring night and a movie you love, but would never think to watch, is just starting.

在一个无聊的夜晚调台时，正好发现某台有一部你喜欢却没有机会去看的电影才刚刚开始。

Even so, it is hard not to feel, flicking through the catalogues, regular stabs of low maternal achievement.

即便如此，在翻看这些目录的时候，我很难不时常感到自己做母亲很失败。

I especially liked flicking through photos on the Nano, double tapping to zoom in on images and moving the images around with one finger.

我尤其喜欢在Nano上翻看照片，双击屏幕进行放大，用一根手指便可旋转照片。

"The last time I had a night out, " he says flicking through a virtual diary in his brain, "was. . . last year. "

“上次我整夜在外”，他说道，翻阅着一本脑子里的虚拟日记，“是……去年。”

Eight years ago this September I was furiously flicking through Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring guide.

八年前，九月份的某天，我正不停地翻阅着LonelyPlanet的《穷游欧洲》旅游指南书。

Just try reading small text in poor light, or flicking through an early issue of Wired.

只要试试在昏暗的光线下看很小的字，或浏览一本《连线》杂志的早期出版物便会发现这一点。

Eg. I am in no mood to study and just flicking through the books.

我没有心情学习，只是漫不经地翻阅书课本而已。